Flyzolo Team Update - Day 137
Zara is back in the air, we repeat, Zara is back in the air! Yihaa!!!

After the visibility of Zara 's previous flight being perturbated by lots of smog, she has now taken off from #Mumbia, #India and is on her way to #Dubai, #UAE. This is her longest over sea leg of the entire journey with a total of 1038nm - 981nm over water across the #arabiansea. Please, a little dance around the fire for Zara and the Shark to keep them safe and well! 💪👮‍♀️🦈 ✈🙏

A flight over sea is potentially always riskier, as there are no options to divert and land in case of an issue. 🌊 Zara felt comfortable with this flight considering the capabilities of the Shark 🦈 and its recent maintenance, but also the additional Turtle Pac fuel bladder, her already accumulated experience of long oversea flights and having now entered an area with much warmer waters 🏝.

How are risks being mitigated? As we have explained in an earlier post: Experienced pilots are advising Zara at all times. She has an Iridium Communications satellite system via YB Tracking which allows her to be in communications at all times with the Flight Ops team. In fact, that is exactly what is happening during every single flight. Someone of the Flight Ops team tracks every flight, for the whole flight. Reason why the Flight Ops team based out of Europe are virtually living on a different time-zone than their close friends and family ✈ 😅. Zara exchanges multiple messages with them regularly during flights about weather, heading, potentially unexpected events, etc.

Additionally, in case anything would go wrong, Zara is aware she not only has a #parachute she can pull - which would make for a soft and cockpit up landing on waters - but she also has a life-raft with her. And, there are busy shipping routes with vessels that could be contacted in case of an immergency. Find them here: https://www.vesselfinder.com/ 🚢

Last but not least, Zara is under no time pressure (she has a full sabbatical year for this and 12 years difference with the current record holder). She reaches Belgium, when she reaches Belgium. Safety first. ✈

This video was Zara on her previous long sea-leg from Indonesia to Sri Lanka over the #indianocean.

#grit #stamina #Courage #femalepilot